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Ray Carver

Posted on April 4, 2019 by John Biscello

Word by stringent word, you gave us breathing lessons– grace near to pauses.    

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Traveling Light

Posted on April 4, 2019 by John Biscello

The lot of the fool– a fresh bouquet of flowers delivered too late.    

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Buster’s Blues

Posted on April 4, 2019 by John Biscello

At the fool’s margins, ceremony gives due pause for a life well-worn.  

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Breeze

Posted on April 4, 2019 by John Biscello

Modeling a breeze, exultancy became her, wave by breaking wave.   (Photo by Anne Brigman)

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First Course

Posted on April 4, 2019 by John Biscello

Awakened, by the sound of light, revelations began feeding her from roots down to sky.   (Photo by Anne Brigman)

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As Modeled by Bjork

Posted on April 4, 2019 by John Biscello

Hands, the conduits through which dignity raptures the movement of prayers.

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The Passion of Joan

Posted on April 4, 2019 by John Biscello

Enlightened, perhaps. God-engorged hormones, maybe. Regardless of why, Joan, you were the rebel prototype long before James Dean zipped up a red jacket, or Marlon Brando mumbled and curled his upper lip into a totem, before Louise Brooks and Josephine … Continue reading →

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Postmodern Prehistory

Posted on April 3, 2019 by John Biscello

They were here before us, and they will be back after we are gone, the seers with the first eyes, the artists absolute in their sublime regard for the brute miracles of the everyday divine.

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Arbus and the Balloon

Posted on April 3, 2019 by John Biscello

Consider the balloon, a bobbing derivative of gravity defied, a plaything modeling its claim of the edge to give the background its sublime due.

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Reverie

Posted on April 3, 2019 by John Biscello

Diane Arbus dreams of dissected twins in love while teething on grass.

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